Bible Text & Cross-references:
All nations shall flow to the Church of Christ. The Jews shall
be rejected for their sins. Idolatry shall be destroyed.
1 The word that Isaias, the son of Amos, saw, concerning Juda and Jerusalem.
2 *And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be
prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go, and say: Come, and let us go up to the mountain
of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law
shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall
turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they be exercised any more to war.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are
filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children.
7 Their land is filled with silver and gold: and there is no end of their
treasures.
8 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable.
Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.
9 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore,
forgive them not.
10 Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of
the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall
be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one
that is proud and high-minded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.
13 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the
oaks of Basan.
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the elevated hills.
15 And upon every high tower, and every fenced wall.
16 And upon all the ships of Tharsis, and upon all that is fair to behold.
17 And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of
men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And idols shall be utterly destroyed.
19 *And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the
earth, from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.
21 And he shall go into the clefts of rocks, and into the holes of stones,
from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.
22 Cease ye, therefore, from the man, whose breath is in his nostrils,
for he is reputed high.
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2: Micheas iv. 1.
19: Osee x. 8.; Luke xxiii. 30.; Apocalypse vi. 16.
